Last chapter before the Epilogue. If you guys don't wanna read it, I understand. Here's a summary: Sasori dies and Hoshi is miserable, spewing out her emotions and words. Things like that. So yes, it's just angst. Love angst. Enjoy reading.

"Die!" he cried.

Sasori saw Chiyo's hands move up. Purple blood splattered the ground and his face as Mother and Father's swords pierced Sasori's heart. And mine, when I saw it.

"SASORI!" I screamed."

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"Wh-what?" Sasori turned back to view what just happened.

He looked to his right, seeing Mother. Looking to his left, he saw Father. Chiyo panted heavily on the ground. Sasori looked down, seeing two swords dripping of Sasori's 'blood'. His already large eyes enlarged even more in realization. A seal was underneath him.

"You let your guard down at the very end, Sasori." panted Chiyo.

"What?" Sasori glared, looking to a corner of the seal.

When he looked towards another one, blood had dripped down from his mouth.

"Now you can't move. It makes sense. No matter how much of your body has become a puppet, you still use chakra, and therefore must have a living part somewhere. Your only weak point. And the only thing missing from that empty shell you left must have been that part. It must have been the moment before my technique took full effect. You transferred it to another puppet. Your puppet bodies are just that, puppets. Your true form is the part that houses your chakra, that living core in your chest!" Chiyo explained.

Sasori cracked a grin. Sakura fell onto her side on the ground.

"Sakura." Chiyo crawled over at her, "This is awful."

Chiyo held up her left hand as it glowed in green chakra. Her right hand grabbed the katana's hilt, slowly pulling it out as her green healing chakra flowed into Sakura's skin, healing it as the sword was slowly being dragged out. Sakura winced in agony.

"Bear with me. It's almost out." Chiyo threw away the sword.

Sakura stopped wincing, though pure misery and grief lay on her features.

"Don't bother, I stabbed her in a vital point. Even without poison she'll be dead in no time. She's lost too much blood. You're a medical ninja, too. You should realize I aimed for a spot that's impossible to heal." Sasori smiled.

"I've already finished with the first-aid techniques," Chiyo's chakra changed to blue, "The technique I'm using now isn't a simple healing technique."

"What?" Sasori's eyes flickered.

"I'm giving her my life energy itself."

"You can't mean…"

"It's a reincarnation technique."

"Reincarnation technique?"

"This was a technique I originally developed for you. To save your life if you ever needed it. Only I can use it."

Sasori tilted his head. Sakura's eyes began to open, but not fully.

"With this technique, one could even bring a puppet to life." Sasori's iris twitched, "At the cost of one's own life, of course."

My eyes closed in sympathy. Chiyo must've really loved Sasori…in order for her to develop that Jutsu just to save him if he needed it. And even if he didn't need it, she was probably considering giving up her own life just so Sasori could have parents. Even if they were just puppets, it would still be parents.

"Sasori…" Chiyo panted, "But I guess that dream can no longer come true."

I bit my lip, tightly shutting my eyes now. Beads of sweat rolled down Chiyo's face. Sasori's eyes were shadowed, though his mouth was slightly open. He surprised me when he spoke.

"Idiot. How stupid. Have you gone senile, Baa Baa?" Sakura blinked and slowly got up.

I was sure that if she had the strength, she'd slap Sasori straight across the face.

"Yes. Are you, Chiyo-baasama?"

"That's strange. I thought your reincarnation technique was supposed to kill you in exchange for breathing life back into someone else." Sasori remarked.

"Sakura may have been critically injured, but she wasn't dead. That's why I was able to survive." she closed her eyes.

"What a shame." Sasori's eyes shadowed.

Sakura got up and punched Sasori in the face. Oh, she did do it. Sasori's face cracked. Sakura panted heavily from rage. Sasori's face cracked even more as he spoke.

"I'd stop if I were you." Sasori rolled his eyes to look at Sakura, "This body feels no pain. Keep hitting me and the only thing you'll hurt is your hand. You women just love to waste your time doing pointless things."

My heart cracked at that. It reminded me how Sasori would never love me back the way I did. I knew that loving him was pointless, but to hear it straight from his lips, it was almost unbearable. Even if it wasn't directed towards myself or that subject.

Sasori went on, "Even if my grandmother, my blood, were to die right now, I'd feel nothing."

Would you feel nothing if I died Sasori? Of course you would…why wouldn't you? I'm probably just a thing that you can play with and then toss away when I'm broken.

"My heart is as my body."

Sakura started to quiver in rage and wrath. Her eyes burned with hatred and fury. If looks could kill, Sasori would've already died.

"She'd just be one more of the hundreds, the thousands, of others that I've killed."

Her hands tightened in fists so firmly that I thought her bones were going to crack.

"Things are much simpler this way."

"Don't you understand what a life is?" her voice was louder than Naruto's, "What family is?"

"Oi, is that really something a shinobi should say?"

Sakura gasped, "Why? Why is that the only way you look at the world?"

"Sakura, that's enough." Chiyo pleaded.

"But…" her eyes fell when she saw Chiyo.

"Sasori was made into what he is by the twisted, misguided teachings of Sunagakure." she looked ever so sadly at the ground.

"Chiyo-baasama."

"Why don't you try having a body like mine? Maybe then you'll understand. A body that never decays, unbound by mortality. As I puppet, I can repair and recreate myself as often as I need. If I need other people around, I can just make them into more puppets if I think they're worthy. A collection isn't just about numbers. Quality is more important than quantity."

I cracked. My heart snapped in two. So…he'd forgotten all about my feelings on that? Or had he just not cared? He had forgot my painful misery at it? Or had he just not bothered to remember? He had forgotten how awful and miserable it was to be trapped inside a hollow body? Maybe it's just what he had said. That his heart is just like his body. I knew this was hopeless, but I tried to crawl over to him. I knew that Sakura would become too angry soon and kill him for certain. Pain coursed through my veins. I had crawled on the ground, dragging myself towards him. My abdomen was far from healed. In fact, it had barely changed at all from when I hadn't used the healing chakra.

I heard Sakura's voice go on as I crawled, "What the Hell are you?"

"If I had to choose, I'd say I'm a human who couldn't completely become a puppet, I guess. I exist as a puppet, but an incomplete one with a living human core. Not a person, but not a puppet either. I'll be dead soon. Before I go, I guess I'll do something pointless too. Consider it a reward for beating me. You wanted to know about Orochimaru, right? In ten days time, go to the Bridge of Heaven and Earth in Kusagakure at noon."

"What's there?"

"I've got a spy working as one of Orochimaru's subordinates. We were suppose to… rendezvous…there…" Sasori struggled to say.

I heard a noise of groaning. My eyes widened and I hurried up, crawling like there was no tomorrow.

"Sasori!" I yelled.

It was finally then that Sakura and Chiyo took notice of me. Sasori struggled to lift his head up to see me. I didn't care how much this would hurt right now, because I knew that if Sasori had died, it would hurt a million times worse. So I jumped over to Sasori. I nearly tripped over, seeing as how Sakura broke my legs when she kicked me. I coughed up blood. When I was near Sasori, I tried to stop. Instead, I just stumbled and accidentally fell on top of him. I didn't care how embarrassed I was or how surprised everyone looked.

"Sasori! Don't die. Please don't die. Don't die on me! You can't die!" I screeched as tears welled up in my eyes.

"Hoshi…that's…impossible…" his hand struggled to touch my cheek.

When it did, I leaned on it, no matter how cold it was. It was Sasori's. And that's all that mattered.

"No! Of course it isn't! You're a puppet! You can't die. You're eternal, just like your art! Remember? You can't die. You can't die. You…" the tears started flowing down, splattering on Sasori's face and chest, "You just can't…" I choked.

"Ho…shi…don't…be…sil…ly…" he whispered.

I took a deep breath, better now or never Hoshi. When I opened my lips again, melodic words came out.

"Under your spell again.
I can't say no to you.
Crave my heart and it's bleeding in your hand.
I can't say no to you.

Shouldn't let you torture me so sweetly.
Now I can't let go of this dream.
I can't breathe but I feel...

Good enough,
I feel good enough for you.

Drink up sweet decadence.
I can't say no to you,
And I've completely lost myself, and I don't mind.
I can't say no to you.

Shouldn't let you conquer me completely.
Now I can't let go of this dream.
Can't believe that I feel...

Good enough,
I feel good enough.
It's been such a long time coming, but I feel good.

And I'm still waiting for the rain to fall.
Pour real life down on me.
'Cause I can't hold on to anything this good enough.
Am I good enough for you to love me too?

So take care what you ask of me,
'cause I can't say no." (1)

When the song was over, I looked at Sasori.

"Hos…hi…" he started to say.

I leaned in closely to hear what he'd say. His next words, however, were never uttered. His lips curled up in a genuine grin. Not those sarcastic ones, or those fake ones. A genuine, happy looking one. I cried. I cried like there was no tomorrow. I buried myself in his chest. I screamed, then let my sorrow consume me.

"SASORI!" my yell echoed through the cave.

Sakura and Chiyo looked at me with dismay. I didn't care. I didn't care that I was crying. I didn't cry that they were looking. I didn't care that they felt sorry for me. I didn't care that I sang in front of them. All I cared about was Sasori. He was dead. Dead. And he laid in front of me, dead. Never to come back. Never to hear me sing again. Never for me rambling on and on about pointless things. Never to have me cooking and having food fights with him. How? Why? Those were the only questions in my head. How could Sasori leave me like that? Why did he have to die? Kami-sama, why have you forsaken me? Why did you have to take Sasori away from me? Especially when I just realized that I had loved him.

Now I knew that great, horrible feeling, of losing a bond. Losing a precious bond (2). My body felt numb. My brain felt hollow. And my heart, felt like an anchor on Jupiter (3). Why did he have to leave me all by myself? In this cruel, cruel world? He was the most precious person to me. The closest person that I held close to my heart. The first real friend that I befriended. The first crush that I crushed on. The first love that I had loved with all my heart. The first person that I had a bond with. A real bond. Now it was shattered. Shattered like glass. Shattered like my heart. Why?

I let out a bloody murder scream once again, piercing both Sakura and Chiyo's ears.

(1) - Good Enough ~ Evanescence if you guys wanna listen. Trust me, it's extremely good and Amy Lee has the voice that angels envy.

(2) - That's a reference to the chapter "Confessions" when Hoshi and Sasori were talking.

(3) - I don't think that some people would get it. It's describing how heavy her heart feels, and since Jupiter has the most gravity (I think) of all the planets, that makes the anchor...however times heavy on Jupiter due to its gravity.

Okay I have to admit, not my best work. It was so much better in my head. But the events that were in the Anime led to this and I couldn't really do much about it, so I had to work with what I had. When I was typing down Sasori and Sakura's speech, I'd noticed that it was extremely like my chapter "A Talk" and some of "Confessions". I apologize for that, because I did remember that Sasori and Sakura had this chat, since I haven't watched the episode in...'bout a year or so, seeing as how I didn't want to watch Sasori die yet again. So sorry about that! I realized after that (and the Sasuke and Naruto "bond speech") Naruto and my speeches are incredibly similar. Facepalms. I should seriously watch the episodes to refresh my memory and THEN make the chapters so they wouldn't be so similar. I feel like a copycat...Sulk in emo corner.